Strife at Thuriae arising over the unequal treatment of citizens' wives (Diodorus 12.11.1-5)

The nomothete (lawgiver) Charondas at Thuriae decreed political disenfranchisement for men who introduced stepmothers into their households (Diodorus 12.12.1-1), and this was celebrated in poetry (Diodorus 12.14.1-2)

"So stern were our ancestors toward all shameful conduct, and so precious did they hold the purity of their children, that when one of the citizens found that his daughter had been seduced, and that she had failed to guard well her chastity till the time of marriage, he walled her up in an empty house with a horse..." (Aeschines, Against Timarchus 180-185)

"...Cleomachus the pugilist, having fallen in love with a certain cinaedus and with a young female slave who was kept as a prostitute by the cinaedus, imitated the style of dialects and mannerisms that was in vogue among the cinaedi." (Strabo, Geography 14.1.41)